Here there be stories.

“Gravedigger” – A flash fiction parable based on an illustration I heard in a sermon.
“You Are Not Alone” – A literary flash fiction. It was inspired by a piece of music from the video game, Final Fantasy IX.
“All Our Passions” – A 600-word satirical flash fiction I wrote as part of a short story contest on the Facebook page for my friend Nick Hayden’s website. The condition for the contest was to write a 600-word story where all the descriptions were told entirely through dialogue.
“Love and Pac-Man” – A 1,000-word romantic comedy about a young man finding love while at an arcade. It was inspired by the concept of using a video arcade as a setting for a romantic story, and by a writers’ group challenge (you can read about that here).
“The Discarded Gift” – A 6,000-word literary story about a lonely, brokenhearted young man who finds an expensive Christmas gift that seems to have been thrown away, and he goes on a city-wide quest to return it to its owner. This was written as a “story exchange” between me and my friend/fellow writer, Nick Hayden. It’s set in a small town he created originally for a collaborative web-serial and later for an anthology of short stories he wrote. He was inspired in part by an actual event and my own experiences growing up in small towns.
“In Search of Traction” – A 2,000-word literary story about a newlywed husband having marital problems trying to get home for Christmas after his car gets stuck in a snowy ditch. I wanted to post this at Christmas, but I didn’t finish it in time. However, it still seemed appropriate since there was a super-cold blizzard the week I posted it.
“Pizza and a Pyschic” – A comedic flash fiction about a bored pizzeria employee who claims to be a psychic on the phone with a customer and (no pun intended) bites off more than he can chew. Loosely based on events in my own life.
“The Christmas Dance“ – A literary flash fiction about a young man trying to find the courage to ask the girl he likes to dance with him at a Christmas Eve ball before she’s stolen by a romantic rival. I mined personal experience for this one, especially since I’ve been getting into ballroom dance in the last year.